Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

We saw this at the Moolah Theater & Lounge in St. Louis -- very nifty auditorium with leather couches on the floor, though sometimes when the background was dark and either bright text or subject matter was in the fore, lights would shine through (or reflect off?) the screen, and that was a little distracting.

OK -- on to the movie. Basically, the entire plot is summed up in the trailers: barber slices his patrons throats and his downstairs bake shop "partner" gets rid of the evidence by grinding them into meat pies. That's pretty much it -- over and over again. It is a big ol' musical, though -- with probably 50% of the dialogue being sung. My reaction to Johnny Depp's voice was the same as I had to Ewan MacGregor's in Moulin Rouge: it was sweet and earnest and I just loved the unpolished feel of it. I don't know that the performance was more than a few notes, but the emotive singing certainly was.

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